Minji's Voice - Bbangsaz

Chapter 10

Hanni's POV

A few days after Kim Minji greeted me in the parking lot of the grocery store, I worked the morning shift at the restaurant and when I got home that afternoon, I saw Anne sitting on her front porch. I walked up to her and greeted her, and she smiled saying, "Iced tea, dear?"

I opened her door, walked through it, and walked up his steps. "That sounds great. If you can stand my bacon grease smell."

She laughed. "I think I can manage. How was your shift?"

I collapsed on the porch swing, leaned back, and moved my body toward the small fan I had running next to it. I sighed with comfort.

"Good," I replied. "I like the job".

"Oh, that's good," she said, handing me the glass of tea she had just poured. I took a grateful sip and then leaned back again.

"I saw the lifeguard girls pick you up the other night and I was really happy to see that you've made some friends. I hope you don't mind having such a nosy neighbor." She smiled kindly and I smiled back.

"No, not at all. Yes, I went to the other side of the lake with them. We met Kim Beomgyu and hung out with him at The Bitter End."

"Oh, you've been meeting with all the Kim's."

I laughed. "Yes, there are more?"

She smiled. "No, only Kim Minji and Kim Beomgyu among the younger generation. I suppose Beomgyu is really the only one able to carry on the Kim's new generation."

"Why do you say that?"

"Well, I don't see Minji Kim leaving her property to date someone, much less marry someone, but then again, I don't know much about her other than she doesn't talk."

"She talks," I said, "I've talked to her."

Anne looked surprised and tilted her head slightly. "Well, I had no idea. I never heard her say a word."

I shook my head. "She knows sign language," I told her. "And me too, my dad was deaf."

"Oh, I see. Well, I didn't even think about that. I guess she comes across as someone who doesn't want to have much to do with anyone else, at least the few times I've seen her in town." She frowned slightly.

"I don't think anyone's really tried it," I said, shrugging. "However, there's nothing wrong with her, except maybe her social skills and that she can't talk," I said, looking over her shoulder, imagining Minji, "And her questionable fashion style," I said smiling.

She smiled back. "Yes, she looks interesting, doesn't she? Of course, I imagine that if you clean her up, she will look more than presentable. In fact, all the Kim children were so handsome that they were practically inhuman." She laughed like a kid, and I smiled at her.

I took a long sip of tea and tilted my head to the side. "Don't you remember exactly what happened with the other two brothers the day of Minji's accident?"

She shook her head. "No, just what I heard around town. I don't know what happened between them to cause all that tragedy. I try to remember them as they were, how every girl within a hundred-mile radius swooned over them. Of course, those guys took advantage of that, even Soo-hyun, who was the least rowdy of the three, but as far as I remember, the only girl any of them were really interested in was Jisoo.

"The three?" I asked, my eyes widening. This sounded like a real deal kind of story.

"Hmm," she said, looking into the distance. "It was a real soap opera with them, mainly between Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Min-ho. Those two guys were always competing for something. If it wasn't sports, it was girls, and when Jisoo came to town, there was only one girl they were competing for. Taehyung Kim was hiding the fact that he was interested too, but the other two didn't pay much attention to him, I guess. Like I said before, he was always a little different."